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We are raising money to improve accessibility and quality of our sport here in York. We are aiming to provide better coaching, further development opportunities, and higher quality kit all for a lower cost to our members.
Despite being a university team for well over 15 years now, we are only just beginning to hit our peak in popularity and outreach across campus. We are consistently earmarked as a standout club within the university and our hard work and dedication to more of a niche sport is consistently recognised.
We are aiming to push ourselves to physical limits whilst also having fun doing so in order to make as much money as we can this Challenge Week. Our sport is often new to people at university, and we want to be able to consistently recruit well and grow the sport here in York, and by fundraising as much as we can, we are able to boost every aspect of the club and the benefits for our members. Any donation that you are able to make will directly improve the experience of students that play American Football here at York, and we are incredibly grateful.
Our aim is to distribute funding across 3 main aspects of club life. Firstly, we replenish all our kit yearly, so a good chunk of any earnings would go towards this in order to continue to be able to provide top of the line kit to York students for as little as possible, keeping the sport as accessible as we can.
We are also aiming to boost the number of coaches we have, so that students who want to try something new at university and experienced players are able to learn and develop as part of this team, and we can give them the best coaches to make that happen.
Finally, if we are successful enough, we are aiming to reduce membership costs for all students, as well as work towards subsidising the cost of gym memberships and physiotherapy appointments for our players, to ensure that we are helping to develop them as people outside of the sport.
Any money donated during Challenge Week will go a long way with helping us with any of these plans. University life is hard enough financially these days, and we as a club are committed to doing all that we can to prevent cost from being a factor in students’ decision as to whether or not they want to give our sport a try. Hopefully, we are also able to offer additional perks to being a part of the club, so as to continue to draw people in and showcase how good our sport really is to people who may have been hesitant at first. Improving access to our sport has always been a key aim of the club, and donations from Challenge Week will really enable us to do that.
Below are some of the challenges we will complete as part of the week:
Be sure to track our progress in all our challenges on our instagram @theyorkcenturions
We would love you to donate as much or as little as you are able and any donations are hugely appreciated. Your donation could also help us unlock fundraising challenges which will help us reach our goal even faster (you can see these on the challenges page).
If you are looking to support an individual athlete or challenge please put a message with your donation saying who!
Alternatively, if you are unable to donate then please do spread the word by signing up as a Challenge Week ambassador for our club, and sharing our social media posts to your own socials so as many people as possible can read about our efforts!